Weekly Writer Wisdom: October 3, 2017

This Week’s Questions: How have your hobbies, day job, or other activities helped to inform your writing? Have you ever stumbled upon topics that either sparked a story idea or were relevant as research to your work-in-progress at that time? Feel free to share examples in your comments.

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9 thoughts on “Weekly Writer Wisdom: October 3, 2017”

Definitely… I feel like my frustration with my job definitely feeds into my two lead protagonists’. One rails against it, the other throws themselves into it, but both are desperately unhappy. I guess I explore how I feel about it through both of them.

I can’t imagine a single project that hasn’t been influenced by my external life! Whether it’s my love of music inspiring the idea for Heritage, or my love for pirates initially setting me on the task to writing Pirate Eyes. And to begin to cite all the ways in which my day to day life brought the spark of life to Eléonore would take a blog post of its own 😉

Nice! And having worked in retail during college, I know what you mean about the interesting encounters. Did the British shop influence you mainly with character ideas? Or did any of the foods or trinkets sold there spark ideas as well?

I guess the most shining example is my novel set in Ireland (or what’s left of it after a magical war): all my experiences, working, living, sightseeing became very relevant and I believed they greatly enriched the story.

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Welcome! I’m Sara Letourneau.

Speculative fiction writer for teens and adults. Columnist at DIY MFA and Writers Helping Writers. Published poet, former tea reviewer and music journalist. Avid reader, tea-holic, and music lover. My heart belongs to the beaches of Cape Cod.

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